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Speaker 1: I'm Rich Dmiro and this is Rich on Tech, the
Speaker 1: podcast where I talk about the tech stuff I think
Speaker 1: you should know about and I answer the questions that
Speaker 1: you send me. My name is Rich Demiro, tech reporter
Speaker 1: at KTLA Channel five in Los Angeles. Joining me is
Speaker 1: producer Megan, who's still trying to figure out what percentage
Speaker 1: of Jeff Bezos's wealth it took to buy the most
Speaker 1: expensive house in LA.
Speaker 2: Hello Meghan, Hello, what's going on?
Speaker 3: You know, I don't know, just a lot just getting
Speaker 3: through a lot of stuff.
Speaker 2: So weird, isn't it.
Speaker 1: We were talking about this earlier, but I always wonder what,
Speaker 1: like what it you know, how you log into your
Speaker 1: bank account? Do you have like an app on your
Speaker 1: phone or just like shows your balance?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, like most people check it like all the time,
Speaker 1: right to like see if you have enough to like
Speaker 1: cover whatever, Like can you imagine?
Speaker 2: I always think about this, like not even just.
Speaker 1: Jeff Bezos, but like you're like a crazy celebrity like
Speaker 1: Tom Hanks, does he have to do that?
Speaker 3: You know what, I'm going to assume they don't even
Speaker 3: have the app.
Speaker 1: They don't even have the app, Like he doesn't have
Speaker 1: like the Chase Banking app on his phone or like
Speaker 1: Bank of America.
Speaker 3: Probably not.
Speaker 2: He just doesn't need it.
Speaker 1: That's frustrating, but it's just funny for like most people.
Speaker 1: It's like, I mean, my parents don't do that. I
Speaker 1: mean they don't have like an app. They don't even
Speaker 1: use like the ATM.
Speaker 3: Wait, this is such a great question, Like why isn't
Speaker 3: Jimmy Fallon asking like these people when.
Speaker 1: Oh, my celebrities like like hey, uh, what does it
Speaker 1: look like when you open up your bank account your Bank.
Speaker 2: Of America app?
Speaker 3: Oh, it's not like what does it look like? It's
Speaker 3: like do you have the app? And like do they
Speaker 3: know of it? You know? Like I want I just
Speaker 3: I don't know, but.
Speaker 1: I would just I would just stare at that figure
Speaker 1: unless like since there's so much interest being accrued, it
Speaker 1: probably just like changes every second, like with more money
Speaker 1: on there.
Speaker 3: You know how they do those Vogue videos where they
Speaker 3: like show their houses, They're like hey yeah, yeah, like hey,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna show you my bank account.
Speaker 1: Yeah, day, here's my savings, which has like seventy four
Speaker 1: million in it.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: This is my tiny fun account, which like I just
Speaker 1: keep like a million in there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I just have one hundred thousand, like if I'm
Speaker 3: you know, just going to dinner or lunch.
Speaker 1: Just just to have uh one can dream. Let's talk
Speaker 1: about something closer to home. The Samsung Galaxy event happened
Speaker 1: this week, and this was there was a little failure
Speaker 1: to launch at the beginning, but then it all worked out.
Speaker 1: So originally last week and I can talk about this
Speaker 1: now because I'm not under embargo anymore. But last week
Speaker 1: I was supposed to go to a Samsung event, was
Speaker 1: like a private hands on event in San Francisco where
Speaker 1: they give you an hour with the phone and you
Speaker 1: kind of shoot some videos so that you have a
Speaker 1: heads up for when it actually launches, you can release
Speaker 1: all your videos. It's mostly meant for like YouTubers and
Speaker 1: influencers so that they can release their video as soon
Speaker 1: as that deadline is open. They call embargoes, like they'll
Speaker 1: say Tuesday at eleven, you can show off your stuff,
Speaker 1: but you have it on Friday, so imagine you have
Speaker 1: the whole weekend to like polish your videos, get them ready,
Speaker 1: and have them ready to go, time them out. Well,
Speaker 1: that was supposed to be me, but that didn't happen
Speaker 1: because my flight was so severely delayed to San Francisco
Speaker 1: that I couldn't make it. Long story short, we had
Speaker 1: the event on Tuesday. That's when we got our first
Speaker 1: look at this device. We were a little behind, but
Speaker 1: it was fine. Our video still did really well. We
Speaker 1: still got our segment for TV and we now know
Speaker 1: what the Galaxy S twenty series is all about. Three
Speaker 1: different phones. They're all five G compatible, which is kind
Speaker 1: of a first. That's a big all in on five
Speaker 1: G for Samsung. And the main things that have changed
Speaker 1: is the camera, of course, because the camera is the
Speaker 1: most important part of any phone. Samsung told me that
Speaker 1: it is their biggest revamp of the camera since the
Speaker 1: Galaxy S seven, which is about four years ago. That's
Speaker 1: big now, I will tell you. In the time that
Speaker 1: I saw these cameras, we were not able to take
Speaker 1: them outside, so I couldn't really tell if these cameras
Speaker 1: are amazing or if there's a lot of hype going on.
Speaker 1: I will say I think that the one hundred times zoom,
Speaker 1: which one of these phones does, is kind of a
Speaker 1: lot of hype because you're never going to get a
Speaker 1: picture good enough with one hundred time zoom. That's going
Speaker 1: to be anything you want right now if you lived
Speaker 1: in New York City and you just want to use
Speaker 1: it to spy on people you know across the street.
Speaker 2: Fine, but I liked.
Speaker 3: Your comment about it. What you know, the thing about
Speaker 3: your kids and going to their place.
Speaker 1: Oh that I can sit in the back seat now
Speaker 1: and not feel guilty.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like that's great.
Speaker 2: It is now. The phones do have a good zoom.
Speaker 1: So they've got like anywhere from three times optical all
Speaker 1: the way up to ten times optical.
Speaker 2: Which is pretty good.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So the iPhone has like I think two times optical,
Speaker 1: which you know is fine, but this is gonna be nice.
Speaker 1: So some of the other features on the phone. You
Speaker 1: got three devices. One is a six point two in
Speaker 1: screen six point seven and point nine. The large one,
Speaker 1: the S twenty Ultra five G is a big phone.
Speaker 2: I mean is a large phone, and it's a powerful phone.
Speaker 2: That's the most powerful model on there.
Speaker 1: And I mean, really, what you need to know is
Speaker 1: the camera is improved. Is it a better camera? We
Speaker 1: won't know until we try it out. We have to
Speaker 1: try it out in everyday situations, low light, lots of light, movement,
Speaker 1: all this stuff. But if I had to guess, I
Speaker 1: would think that Samsung brought it with the camera because
Speaker 1: they need to. The iPhone camera's pretty amazing. Let's see
Speaker 1: what other things are there. There's this feature called single Take,
Speaker 1: which the only time I could ever see it being
Speaker 1: useful is if you're trying to capture your kids first
Speaker 1: steps or a birthday party when someone's blown out candles.
Speaker 1: You press the button once and it kind of just
Speaker 1: captures a whole bunch of videos and pictures and affects
Speaker 1: them all at the same time.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I thought that that was kind of cool.
Speaker 2: It's cool, it's kind of fun.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Again, for the average consumer, they're gonna use a lot
Speaker 1: of these features the first time they get their phone.
Speaker 1: They're gonna show them to their friends, like, let me
Speaker 1: show you a hundred time zoom and then that's it.
Speaker 1: You're not really going to use on time zoom now,
Speaker 1: thirty times zoom. Sure, even ten times zoom is.
Speaker 2: Going to be great. Are the pictures going to be
Speaker 2: that great. Probably not.
Speaker 3: I never use zoom on my phone.
Speaker 1: I try not to, Yeah, because as a rule I
Speaker 1: want the highest quality pictures exactly, and if you're zooming in,
Speaker 1: you're not getting the highest quality pictures. Now, optical zoom
Speaker 1: you are. So if you can use optical, that's fine,
Speaker 1: but the rest of it you don't want to use.
Speaker 1: There's eight K video, which, again, how good is eight
Speaker 1: K video going to be on the very first phone
Speaker 1: that does eight K video? Not very good, So you
Speaker 1: don't want to use that. It's limited to five minutes,
Speaker 1: so you can't really even take much video away.
Speaker 3: Because it would take up all the space on the phone.
Speaker 1: I think they limit it for various reasons, but yeah,
Speaker 1: one of them is probably space and just other considerations.
Speaker 1: Probably use a lot of horsepower on the phone and
Speaker 1: you can't really sustain that for very long. I'm guessing.
Speaker 2: HD video chat with Google Duo.
Speaker 1: Google Duo, when it came out a couple years ago,
Speaker 1: I thought was the coolest thing to ever happen in
Speaker 1: video chat, and still nobody knows about it.
Speaker 2: Right, You know FaceTime, you know Skype.
Speaker 1: But when after FaceTime, video chat falls off a cliff,
Speaker 1: you can't even mention another program that people use for
Speaker 1: video chat.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 2: It's crazy.
Speaker 3: Did you ever, like, did you use people do?
Speaker 1: The only person I can get is my brother, who
Speaker 1: is an Android fanatic, and that's it. And so it's
Speaker 1: you're not going to get a person that's an iPhone
Speaker 1: user to download another video chat app unless you're a
Speaker 1: cross platform and you're on Android and they're on iPhone
Speaker 1: and you're like, please, can you download this? I swear
Speaker 1: the sign up's not that tough. But iPhone users default
Speaker 1: to everything iPhone and Apple because it's just easy. It's
Speaker 1: built in and it's already there, right, and that's been
Speaker 1: part of Apple's magic as well. Pricing for these new
Speaker 1: phones starting at one thousand dollars for the S twenty,
Speaker 1: twelve hundred dollars for the mid range S twenty plus,
Speaker 1: and then fourteen hundred dollars for the S twenty Ultra
Speaker 1: five G, which is the granddaddy of all phones. Pre
Speaker 1: Orders begin on the twenty first of February. The phones
Speaker 1: are in stores on March.
Speaker 2: Sixth, and my uh oh.
Speaker 1: The ram was also if you're really interested in this stuff,
Speaker 1: if you're like an Android nerd, you're interested in the RAM,
Speaker 1: which is twelve gig standard, which is a lot of horsepower, okay,
Speaker 1: and then storage is one twenty eight standard, and it
Speaker 1: can go all the way up to one point five
Speaker 1: terabytes with a micro SD card, so you can really
Speaker 1: store a lot of stuff on these things. And the
Speaker 1: batteries are huge as well. Four thousand million powers, forty
Speaker 1: five hundred million powers and five thousand million powers, which
Speaker 1: is the most I've ever seen on a phone. I
Speaker 1: think even the iPhone tops out at like three thousand
Speaker 1: million powers. So these are powerful phones, but Samsung has
Speaker 1: always been known for powerful phones. They throw a lot
Speaker 1: of specs at things. Does it all add up to
Speaker 1: being like the best phone in the world. A lot
Speaker 1: of times the iPhone still beats them in various ways,
Speaker 1: like the camera this year, But we're have to see.
Speaker 2: I will tell you.
Speaker 1: Just in passing the you know, going hands on with
Speaker 1: these devices, of course, I fell in love with them
Speaker 1: and I want them, or at least the Ultra Yeah,
Speaker 1: kind of. I always get this idea of like, oh
Speaker 1: my gosh, it's so you know, like there's just things
Speaker 1: you could do on Android that are so simpler, so
Speaker 1: much simpler than you can do on iOS, right, And
Speaker 1: it's just until you use it for a bit, you
Speaker 1: can't realize like why Android's simpler in a lot of ways,
Speaker 1: whereas iOS makes you do a lot of taps, and
Speaker 1: like just one example I always give, I'll give two examples, okay,
Speaker 1: and this is a very real world example because I'm
Speaker 1: always researching restaurants. Let's say you're reading an article about
Speaker 1: a restaurant and they have a link to like the
Speaker 1: restaurant's Instagram page. Right, Like yesterday, I was on an
Speaker 1: article La Times linked to their La Times Food which
Speaker 1: had a picture of this cheeseburger from this restaurant in
Speaker 1: Santa Monica. And on Android, number one, I can click
Speaker 1: those links and bring me into Instagram versus on iOS.
Speaker 1: It brings you into a browser that has Instagram, then
Speaker 1: you have to open up Instagram and blah blah.
Speaker 2: So two things. So that's number one.
Speaker 1: Second thing you're able to do on Android is actually
Speaker 1: press and hold down the home button, and that will
Speaker 1: scan the screen for any pertinent information like the restaurant
Speaker 1: name and it's Yelp review, And so instantly I can
Speaker 1: go from Instagram looking at this picture to pressing down
Speaker 1: the home button, which scans Google Assistant for anything that's
Speaker 1: on the screen and then gives me everything I need
Speaker 1: to know about that restaurant. Here's it's Google page, right,
Speaker 1: And it's just a simple thing that's like really tough
Speaker 1: to explain, but it's super useful. And so I instantly
Speaker 1: bookmarked this restaurant on Yelp and took a little note
Speaker 1: that said try the cheeseburger in like two seconds. On iPhone,
Speaker 1: that would have taken me a lot of cross searching.
Speaker 1: I would have had to go into Chrome or into
Speaker 1: browser and like search the restaurant name. Remember the restaurant name.
Speaker 1: Then once I get it in the browser, I get
Speaker 1: to like click it and hope it takes me into Yelp.
Speaker 1: And then if it doesn't take me into Yelp, I
Speaker 1: have to go into Yelp and search again.
Speaker 3: So or if you like swipe up on Instagram, like
Speaker 3: on a link, yeah, it would take you like directly
Speaker 3: to whatever Chrome to like look at that link. But
Speaker 3: on the iPhone it'll just open within the app. So
Speaker 3: it looks saw messed up, which is what you're saying.
Speaker 1: I actually Instagram on the on Android. This is an abnormality.
Speaker 1: Instagram does use its own in app browser, and that's
Speaker 1: an Instagram thing. They decided they're not using like any
Speaker 1: browser that goes into the actual system. Okay, so I
Speaker 1: don't know why they do that. It is very complicated.
Speaker 1: And you know, again, it's like a little thing like this,
Speaker 1: like you open up a link on YouTube on the
Speaker 1: iPhone and it's going to bring you into like this
Speaker 1: small YouTube thing that you may not be signed in on.
Speaker 1: And so next thing, No, I want to watch that
Speaker 1: video later, but I can't say save later because it's
Speaker 1: like we'll sign into YouTube. What do you mean sign
Speaker 1: in like I am. It's like very confusing. Yeah, so anyway,
Speaker 1: I fell in love with these devices. I will say
Speaker 1: in passing my impression of the camera that I saw
Speaker 1: in the like terrible lighting conditions that they had there
Speaker 1: was not very good. It wasn't like taking better pictures
Speaker 1: than my pixel, and so I have to kind of
Speaker 1: see if that was an abnormality of the lighting. The
Speaker 1: lighting was terrible. The pixel pictures weren't.
Speaker 2: Very good either.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we really couldn't get a good idea.
Speaker 1: But I will say we took a lot of video
Speaker 1: on the I phone with our like social media and
Speaker 1: it came out amazing.
Speaker 3: Yes, so I also am just like so not used
Speaker 3: to taking a picture on it.
Speaker 2: Pes you get your your very iPhone.
Speaker 3: A lot of the biased are yeah, and it's bad. Okay.
Speaker 3: I think once they figure out like making how to
Speaker 3: make stories look good.
Speaker 2: This is this is very true.
Speaker 1: This is Megan's big thing, and I do agree with that.
Speaker 2: But if you look at if you post.
Speaker 1: An Instagram story from your Samsung or your Pixel or
Speaker 1: any other phone that's not iPhone, no, they are terrible looking.
Speaker 1: And the people that are posting them don't realize this.
Speaker 1: And so when you look at it on an iPhone,
Speaker 1: I'm I will literally go back to my iPhone and
Speaker 1: take a look and be like, does this look that bad?
Speaker 2: No, it looks fine on iPhone.
Speaker 3: So if I were to watch a Samsung story on
Speaker 3: a Samsung, it will look good when.
Speaker 2: You're posting it. It does.
Speaker 1: I feel like it just doesn't. It's not the same.
Speaker 1: They don't have the same codex.
Speaker 3: I feel like, Okay, all right, well are so if
Speaker 3: you want Rich to answer your tech questions, just go
Speaker 3: to his website, Rich on tech dot tv and hit
Speaker 3: the contact button. Our first question comes from Michael. It's
Speaker 3: actually really a comment. He said, Rich. There is way
Speaker 3: too much emphasis being placed on five G devices by
Speaker 3: the telecom companies and device makers. Verizon has five G
Speaker 3: downtown and Santa Monica only in LA. Companies like Samsung
Speaker 3: are pitching five G phones. Obviously, these phones just launched
Speaker 3: and they have five G, but there's nowhere to use it. Basically,
Speaker 3: buying a phone or any mobile device with five G
Speaker 3: is a waste. Five G towers may be installed in
Speaker 3: the next two to three years, but by then the
Speaker 3: device you bought in twenty twenty is dated. So what
Speaker 3: are your thoughts on that?
Speaker 2: That's a good question.
Speaker 1: I'm actually looking at my address on T Mobile because
Speaker 1: T Mobile has nationwide five G. Okay, curious like what
Speaker 1: their deal is with their you know, five G. So
Speaker 1: let's see if it has it in my and it
Speaker 1: does actually, So here's the thing I think that I
Speaker 1: understand Michael.
Speaker 2: I understand his argument.
Speaker 1: He's saying that the telecom companies are pushing five G,
Speaker 1: pushing five G, but you have to understand their standpoint.
Speaker 1: They are marketing machines, They're spending a lot of money
Speaker 1: to upgrade to five G.
Speaker 2: They're not gonna just sit back.
Speaker 1: They're gonna try to get as many people on board
Speaker 1: as possible to help subsidize some of these new towers
Speaker 1: and things that they're building.
Speaker 2: Is it a lot of hype?
Speaker 1: Yes, at this point it is. Is there anyone I've
Speaker 1: met or run into that's saying, rich, five G has
Speaker 1: changed my life? It's so amazing. No, Will it happen, Yes,
Speaker 1: eventually over time. And I think that Samsung going all
Speaker 1: in on these five G phones right now. Number one,
Speaker 1: They did it in a unique way. They, except for
Speaker 1: the lowest model phone, which is the Samsung Galaxy S twenty,
Speaker 1: the S twenty plus and the Ultra, support all the
Speaker 1: flavors of five G that are out there, which means
Speaker 1: Verizon's building a network that doesn't really is a little
Speaker 1: bit different than the way that T Mobile built their network.
Speaker 1: But the phones have the technology built in to handle
Speaker 1: both networks.
Speaker 2: Does that make sense? So again, and do they not
Speaker 2: have they have five G as well?
Speaker 3: They have a different Now every carrier.
Speaker 1: Has five G at this point. They're all building them
Speaker 1: in slightly different ways. Some of them overlap, for instance,
Speaker 1: or some I don't want to get in the weeds.
Speaker 2: It's different.
Speaker 1: There's just different ways of doing it, and you know
Speaker 1: every carrier is kind of doing it differently. But these
Speaker 1: phones have the technology built in to handle both types
Speaker 1: of networks that you can build. So is it a
Speaker 1: lot of hype, Yes, but you got to think on
Speaker 1: the flip side, Michael. People are upgrading their phones today
Speaker 1: and keeping them for three years, So the system is
Speaker 1: going to evolve over three years and be better, and
Speaker 1: so that the phone you got today, yeah, is it
Speaker 1: going to be the best phone in three years? No,
Speaker 1: But you're still gonna be able to ride that wave
Speaker 1: as these five G.
Speaker 3: Networks get better, right because obviously they've done like the
Speaker 3: math and they see that, like you said, people upgrade
Speaker 3: every two to three years.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I forget the I just Samsung just told
Speaker 1: me that number.
Speaker 3: I'm like less than two years. I feel like once
Speaker 3: I hit the like year and a half mark, I
Speaker 3: already want the next phone. But then again, I'm like
Speaker 3: three years behind with my new phone with okay.
Speaker 1: Current, So upgrade cycles are now four months longer. According
Speaker 1: to Samsung with their Galaxy S devices, they're noticing that
Speaker 1: people now upgrade every twenty seven months. It used to
Speaker 1: be every twenty two months, so on average, if you
Speaker 1: look at twenty seven months, that's a little over two years.
Speaker 1: When people start to get that itch of like I
Speaker 1: need a new phone. For me, it's every six months,
Speaker 1: but that's just me.
Speaker 3: It's more like every every two months, every two months,
Speaker 3: but that's just because you switch back.
Speaker 2: Yeah, when these new phones come out, I just get
Speaker 2: very excited to try.
Speaker 3: So are you going to buy?
Speaker 2: I was?
Speaker 1: I already put in the pre order kind of like
Speaker 1: I got everything ready for the pre order so I
Speaker 1: may get a review unit from Samsung.
Speaker 2: I'm not sure. Okay, try that first before I order,
Speaker 2: but I did. I am.
Speaker 1: I'm also trying to decide between the S twenty Plus
Speaker 1: and the S twenty Ultra because I like the idea
Speaker 1: of the Ultra, but I feel like it's too big
Speaker 1: for me.
Speaker 2: That's really hot.
Speaker 1: I like a phone, well, I like the phone that
Speaker 1: I like a phone that fits in my pocket, and
Speaker 1: that's like a larger than you need, right right. Well,
Speaker 1: there's another phone from Samsung, the Galaxy Z Flip, and
Speaker 1: this one went bananas on my Facebook page. We did
Speaker 1: a little video on this and Megan, how many views
Speaker 1: did that.
Speaker 3: Get like three billion, three million.
Speaker 1: Three million views over three million. Yeah, and it's clear
Speaker 1: people are interested in these in these foldable These phones
Speaker 1: with a foldable screen are very interesting to people because
Speaker 1: it's something that you never saw before. And now we've
Speaker 1: seen it about three or four times over the past year,
Speaker 1: because don't forget it. Last year's Ces we saw our
Speaker 1: first foldable tablet and that was like, whoa what, And
Speaker 1: then we've had a couple foldable phones between now and then,
Speaker 1: the Samsung Galaxy Fold and also the the Motorola Razor,
Speaker 1: which folds well. The z Flip is not as high
Speaker 1: end as the other Samsung phones, but it's really cool
Speaker 1: looking and we played with this. This is not a
Speaker 1: phone for me, but I can see the appeal of
Speaker 1: this phone because it's basically a Samsung Galaxy device. Let's
Speaker 1: imagine it's from last year, like last year's model, let's
Speaker 1: say last year's specs, but it folds in half, which
Speaker 1: means it's kind of cool and I like that idea
Speaker 1: because it fits in your pocket. It appeals to a
Speaker 1: lot of people because of that reason. It's got a
Speaker 1: six point seven inch display. Let's see the cameras, you know,
Speaker 1: it's very standard cameras. You've got a ten megapixel on
Speaker 1: the selfie, twelve megapixels on the other one.
Speaker 2: You've got a wide angle.
Speaker 1: You've got eight gigabytes a RAM to fifty six storage,
Speaker 1: thirty three hundred million hour battery.
Speaker 2: So it's a good phone. Yeah, it's not gonna be
Speaker 2: your high end.
Speaker 1: You're not gonna use this as a creation phone, but
Speaker 1: it's enough for like just doing fun stuff.
Speaker 2: This is it.
Speaker 1: You're looking at a video of on Instagram at rich
Speaker 1: On Tech and again it fits in the palm of
Speaker 1: your hand. And the cool thing is there are some
Speaker 1: fun things you can do with it, like set it
Speaker 1: on a table and watch video because it acts as
Speaker 1: its own little tripod.
Speaker 2: Yeah, which is cool.
Speaker 1: You can you know, you can take selfies because it's
Speaker 1: like again, it's own little tripod.
Speaker 2: So it's cool.
Speaker 1: It's thirteen hundred and eighty dollars and it'll be on
Speaker 1: sale on Valentine's Day. So they kind of surprised everyone
Speaker 1: with this, and it's cool. I think that a lot
Speaker 1: of people. A lot of the videos that I watched,
Speaker 1: the reviewers were they didn't do standard reviews on them
Speaker 1: just yet because nobody's had this for long enough to
Speaker 1: do a review, but everyone's kind of pleasantly surprised. Like
Speaker 1: Samsung got this right. It's a good phone out of
Speaker 1: the gate. It's not something that i'd recommend as like
Speaker 1: a high end phone, but it's high end in like
Speaker 1: a way of this is futuristic. It f's in your pocket.
Speaker 1: It's kind of a cool phone. Yeah, if you have
Speaker 1: a Galaxy and you don't need the high powered stuff,
Speaker 1: all those extra features, then you get this and it's
Speaker 1: it's kind of a neat little device.
Speaker 3: One of the comments is funny, Scott DG. This is
Speaker 3: on your Instagram. Everything old is new again, looking forward
Speaker 3: to the Samsung rotary. That's funny.
Speaker 2: Oh that's a good one.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's next.
Speaker 2: Actually not a bad idea.
Speaker 3: I don't even know what a rotary is.
Speaker 1: Oh, it's a rotary phone, like like you a turn
Speaker 1: little dial. Oh, but that's not a bad idea for Samsung,
Speaker 1: just for fun to come out with a phone or
Speaker 1: someone that would actually be a rotary phone that sits
Speaker 1: in your house that would use cellular.
Speaker 3: Okay, be kind of cool, or just like an app
Speaker 3: that you can.
Speaker 2: I'm sure they have on an iPhone.
Speaker 3: That's cool, all right. So this next question comes from Steve.
Speaker 3: This kind of goes back to what we were talking
Speaker 3: about earlier. When I Google, for instance, a restaurant and
Speaker 3: there is a map showing its location or a button
Speaker 3: for directions, my iPhone opens my Apple Maps app, but
Speaker 3: shows me my current location and not the location of
Speaker 3: the restaurant and or the directions to it. So why
Speaker 3: does that happen?
Speaker 1: Oh, this is talking about differences between iOS and Android. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this is another difference. And this is the thing. None
Speaker 1: of these are deal breakers, none of these are enough. Look,
Speaker 1: Apple has some of the most popular phones in the world,
Speaker 1: especially here in the US, and I have never met
Speaker 1: maybe I've met a handful of people who are like rich.
Speaker 2: It's really annoying that when I click.
Speaker 1: And this is another example I'm gonna give when I'm
Speaker 1: in Yelp on the iPhone, it kills me that I
Speaker 1: cannot press that directions button on there and get directions
Speaker 1: to a place because it will open Apple Maps, which
Speaker 1: I don't have installed on my iPhone. So that means
Speaker 1: it'll say broken link. Do you want us to download
Speaker 1: this from the app store? And I say no, there's
Speaker 1: a reason why I don't have it. Let me set
Speaker 1: Apple Maps as our Google Maps as my mapping app. Now,
Speaker 1: I remember there used to be away in Yelp on
Speaker 1: the iPhone to do that, and I think they took
Speaker 1: it away.
Speaker 3: It's funny because I love Apple Maps.
Speaker 2: Do you really?
Speaker 1: I think it looks beautiful. It just doesn't work. It
Speaker 1: doesn't route you the right way. It does not have
Speaker 1: the information that Google has. Okay, period, I've tried it.
Speaker 1: I sat there and you know when I went all
Speaker 1: in on the iPhone. Yeah, when I was writing my book.
Speaker 1: I'm sitting there and I'm trying to use it, and I'm.
Speaker 2: Like, this is great. It looks beautiful, it's so.
Speaker 1: Smooth the animations, and yes, it's gotten better, but at
Speaker 1: the end of the day, it does not bring you
Speaker 1: to the places you need to go in a proper format.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the only thing on a regular basis, I honestly
Speaker 3: have never really had these issues with Apple Maps, but
Speaker 3: Google Maps for me, maybe you can fix this. There's
Speaker 3: a delay, Like there's like a little bit of a lag.
Speaker 3: I've noticed, Like I'll be going and then it'll all
Speaker 3: like pass the street and I'll be like turn left
Speaker 3: here and I'm like, well, I didn't get in the
Speaker 3: left hand turn lane. Like there's a total I've never.
Speaker 2: Had that problem. That could be isolated to just mage.
Speaker 3: Maybe it's just my it could be. I mean there
Speaker 3: are like hear it five seconds later for raps.
Speaker 1: I mean there are definitely sometimes when I'm waiting for
Speaker 1: my maps to kind of catch up to where I'm going.
Speaker 2: If you're disoriented, you just got on the you know.
Speaker 1: Off the airplane, and you're like going somewhere like in
Speaker 1: a rental car, and I'm like, do I need.
Speaker 2: To make a love to write let me.
Speaker 1: Sometimes happens Apple. Okay, I will give this to Apple Maps.
Speaker 1: I will okay, I will give this to Apple Maps.
Speaker 2: You are right now. I will tell you this.
Speaker 1: It mainly why do I always do that one? That's
Speaker 1: what I meant to do. I will tell you this
Speaker 1: walking directions specifically, Apple Maps does a better job of
Speaker 1: finding your location quicker, getting a lock on that location,
Speaker 1: and navigating around. I don't know why that is, but
Speaker 1: I have noticed that. Yeah, So I don't know. That's
Speaker 1: that's just one thing I've noticed. All right, Okay, so
Speaker 1: what do we answer the question. Yeah, So the thing
Speaker 1: is it's just it's the Android versus iOS. iOS does
Speaker 1: not let you set defaults, which means, no matter what
Speaker 1: whatever you're clicking on, it's not going to take you
Speaker 1: to that thing because it's not It doesn't let you
Speaker 1: set to faults. Even if you have the Chrome web
Speaker 1: browser installed on your iPhone, any link you click is
Speaker 1: not going to take you to Chrome.
Speaker 2: It's going to take you to Safari. Yeah.
Speaker 3: And so basically, Steve, you should probably be using the
Speaker 3: Safari app. He's using the Google app. So if you
Speaker 3: were to use the Safari app and go to a
Speaker 3: restaurant address and click on that, it would take him
Speaker 3: to Google Maps or Apple Maps.
Speaker 1: Yeah, take him to Apple Maps, yes, Notchrome.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So I will tell you this.
Speaker 1: So this is the other thing that it's which is
Speaker 1: also confusing Google codes their apps with what are called
Speaker 1: deep links, which means when you click a link on Safari,
Speaker 1: it's actually kind of tricking the iOS operating system into
Speaker 1: opening Google Maps because normally it defaults to Apple Maps.
Speaker 1: But Google has hard coded that link to actually take
Speaker 1: you into its app, and that's.
Speaker 2: Something that developers can do.
Speaker 1: Google is very good about it because they want to
Speaker 1: keep you in the Google ecosystem.
Speaker 2: So let me give you an example.
Speaker 1: I use Gmail on my phone and I click links
Speaker 1: in Gmail to an address, it will take me into
Speaker 1: Google Maps. It's not happening, Nat, It's happening because Google
Speaker 1: is kind of tricking the system with these deep links.
Speaker 3: Okay, I'm gonna try it right now. So you're on
Speaker 3: what I looked up Nobo.
Speaker 2: So you looked up Nobuo R and why on Safari?
Speaker 1: On Safari, So look up noboo and on Google and
Speaker 1: do directions right there?
Speaker 2: Big link? Okay, that which one? Either one. Let's see
Speaker 2: what happens.
Speaker 1: You're clicking the map link and it takes you into
Speaker 1: Google Maps. Yep, that's because they have hard coded that
Speaker 1: from Google Search. They said, oh, we want to make sure.
Speaker 1: We're going to check to see if you have Google
Speaker 1: Maps installed on your phone. This is why it's so confusing,
Speaker 1: because half the time, if a developer has taken the
Speaker 1: time to deep link it, it'll work.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: If they haven't, it takes you to Apple Maps. You're like, wait, well,
Speaker 1: I'm confused.
Speaker 3: It's very interesting, very confusing.
Speaker 1: And I think that's part of the reason why Google
Speaker 1: Maps changed their logo because now it's much more clear
Speaker 1: that this is a different app than Apple Maps.
Speaker 3: Very competitive.
Speaker 1: Yes, other things to talk about from the Samsung event
Speaker 1: Galaxy Buds Plus.
Speaker 2: And you got to.
Speaker 1: Pay Galaxy Buds at the last event, right, Yes, they
Speaker 1: gave you a test repair. Yeah, and you used them
Speaker 1: for a while before. You're just made fun of you
Speaker 1: and said you should have air pods. Yep, and now
Speaker 1: they've been banished. But Galaxy Buds Plus are the new version.
Speaker 1: And get this, the even the newest air pods have
Speaker 1: about I think four to five hours of time use time. Now,
Speaker 1: I've never had a problem with battery life on AirPods
Speaker 1: ever in my life.
Speaker 2: Thrown back in they charge super easy. Yeah, but the Galaxy.
Speaker 1: Buds now have eleven hours of playback on a single charge.
Speaker 2: That is quite impressives.
Speaker 1: When you put them in the case, you are getting
Speaker 1: an additional eleven hours. So you're talking twenty two hours.
Speaker 3: What are you doing where you needed to be charged? No,
Speaker 3: it just means you can go days without.
Speaker 2: Charging it, right basically.
Speaker 1: Now, Also, you could be traveling a far distance, maybe
Speaker 1: you're on a plane for a long time. That's when
Speaker 1: it really comes into play. I've actually started to use
Speaker 1: headphones less because I read this book about the body
Speaker 1: I've talked about, and it was saying how our ears
Speaker 1: were not really meant to have headphones in them at
Speaker 1: all times. There's little tiny hairs in your ear that
Speaker 1: helps you that help you hear. Those are like the
Speaker 1: little they move in like the waves. So when you're
Speaker 1: blasting them. And I'm not a doctor, don't take this
Speaker 1: for you know, like any medical advice, but I'm just
Speaker 1: saying it makes sense. The more you use them, the
Speaker 1: more you're wearing them out. The hairs, the little kind
Speaker 1: of receptors that are.
Speaker 3: That makes sense. I mean, it sounds like it makes sense.
Speaker 2: That's as a very basic version of it.
Speaker 1: Now an audiologist may dispute that, but it makes it
Speaker 1: made sense to me that the more you're using these,
Speaker 1: not like a muscle in your body where you can
Speaker 1: just work it out and it gets bigger and better,
Speaker 1: this is your ears, it gets worse.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So that is my thought, is that.
Speaker 1: Maybe I don't need headphones in all the time when
Speaker 1: I'm cruising through the airport or on a plane. So
Speaker 1: I've been trying to make a mindful effort to not
Speaker 1: use them as much.
Speaker 2: Take it for what it's worth.
Speaker 3: Do you hear better? No?
Speaker 1: I still can't hear my wife when she yells me.
Speaker 1: Now here's another cool thing about these Galaxy buds. Plus
Speaker 1: you get sixty minutes of playback with just three minutes
Speaker 1: of quick charging.
Speaker 2: So have you ever had this thing?
Speaker 1: And it hasn't really happened to me recently, but there
Speaker 1: used to be a time when, like you would forget
Speaker 1: to charge your earbuds you go to the gym.
Speaker 2: You know, if I'm only like a heavy lifting day.
Speaker 3: I bet your sister love that job.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I don't do that.
Speaker 3: So my point he does not lift, so I do
Speaker 3: five pounds, yeah, five pound weights.
Speaker 1: So if you know, if you're in a big day
Speaker 1: where you're like going to the gym and all of
Speaker 1: a sudden your thing's not charged, you can put these
Speaker 1: on the charger for three minutes and you'll get sixty
Speaker 1: minutes of playback, which is great. You can also put
Speaker 1: them on the back of your phone because the Galaxy
Speaker 1: has what's called reverse charging. You can put them on
Speaker 1: the back of your Samsung phone and charge them for
Speaker 1: three minutes and get sixty minutes. If you you know,
Speaker 1: forget to charge your device and you get to the
Speaker 1: gym and it's totally dead. Three minutes on a charger
Speaker 1: and you're good to go for an hour. Now, for me,
Speaker 1: my workouts use last closer to like three to four hours,
Speaker 1: so this would not work out for my major lift sessions.
Speaker 3: So funny, but I'm kidding.
Speaker 2: That's a joke.
Speaker 1: Like my goal with the gym is to get in
Speaker 1: and out as fast as humanly.
Speaker 3: Goal with the gym is just to like look at
Speaker 3: the weights acknowledge their presence.
Speaker 2: I just wish it would work with just looking at
Speaker 2: them and not having that. That's the next and the.
Speaker 1: Other cool thing is that since Samsung has the reverse
Speaker 1: wireless charging, you can just place these Galaxy buds in
Speaker 1: their case on the back of your Galaxy phone. If
Speaker 1: you have one of the newer phones that reverse wireless charges,
Speaker 1: it'll charge them in three minutes and you get sixty
Speaker 1: minutes to work out.
Speaker 3: Wow. Sorry, I don't want to take this like Samsung
Speaker 3: thing away from Samsung, But can you do that with AirPods?
Speaker 1: No, the iPhone does not let you reverse wireless charge.
Speaker 1: It has wireless charging, it doesn't it will not charge
Speaker 1: another device, but you can charge your AirPods on the
Speaker 1: back of a Galaxy device.
Speaker 3: I'm sure there are a lot of like iPhone users
Speaker 3: that they were wondering that question though.
Speaker 1: You know, absolutely speaking for the people, and that would
Speaker 1: be a cool feature for Apple to do, and they probably.
Speaker 3: Will, Yeah, eventually.
Speaker 1: Apple usually is a little step behind. But when they
Speaker 1: do things, they do them polished. Yes, and I'm not
Speaker 1: saying Samsung's not polished, but Samsung, let's be honest, they
Speaker 1: like to try things and fail publicly. We've seen it
Speaker 1: with the Galaxy Note seven which lit on fire. They
Speaker 1: just send the hand to my house to like pick
Speaker 1: it up. They sent someone to pick.
Speaker 2: Up the device.
Speaker 3: I didn't know that that happened to you.
Speaker 1: I didn't blow up, but they recalled all the devices,
Speaker 1: including the review units. So I had one which I
Speaker 1: was secretly going to keep just to hike have it.
Speaker 2: I was gonna be like, oh.
Speaker 1: I don't have one, and sure enough they're like, no, no,
Speaker 1: We're sending someone to you to pick it up from.
Speaker 3: You, and so yeah, wow, I wish you had it. Yeah,
Speaker 3: that was I remember that that whole situation.
Speaker 2: Did keep the fire phone from Amazon. That was the
Speaker 2: other one.
Speaker 1: That was the one where they really wanted it back,
Speaker 1: and I was just like, I take it for another week,
Speaker 1: just to try something.
Speaker 2: And then they finally like, forgot that.
Speaker 3: If Jeff was using a fire phone when that whole
Speaker 3: hack happened.
Speaker 2: He wouldn't have been hacked.
Speaker 3: No, he would have.
Speaker 1: I just thought it'd be so cool to look back
Speaker 1: at the fire phone in like a couple of years,
Speaker 1: and can we do a story on the fire We
Speaker 1: should revisit.
Speaker 2: Let's power up. It probably doesn't power up anymore.
Speaker 3: You'll never for sure get invited to an Amazon.
Speaker 2: Amazon hates me.
Speaker 1: Actually, the list of companies that are ever since I
Speaker 1: started this podcast where I talk more about the companies
Speaker 1: that I cover, that's when it all started.
Speaker 2: Because they probably listened and they're like, Rich, we don't
Speaker 2: like you anymore. But here's the thing.
Speaker 1: I gotta keep it real for you, the listener.
Speaker 3: For your homies out there listening.
Speaker 1: I do because that is the bottom line. You gotta look,
Speaker 1: if I don't get invited to the secret champagne room
Speaker 1: at the Samsung event, so be it.
Speaker 3: Hey, at least your video got three million views. That
Speaker 3: doesn't hurt. That feels good. It did feel good, better
Speaker 3: than you know, less than that go ahead anyways. Next
Speaker 3: week is from Richard. Hello, Oh, I wrote this honestly,
Speaker 3: I think you did say he loves me. Richard asks,
Speaker 3: as of late, I have plenty of time. That must
Speaker 3: be nice, and I would like to know what equipment
Speaker 3: is needed to start a podcast. I have the latest
Speaker 3: Apple software.
Speaker 2: Oh, I don't think you.
Speaker 3: Should tell him because we don't need any more competition. Yeah,
Speaker 3: just kidding, Richard.
Speaker 1: You know I am not the best to answer this
Speaker 1: question because number one, we do this podcast in the
Speaker 1: worst possible way ever. I mean you hear the audio
Speaker 1: quality is not very good. Production quality is not very good.
Speaker 2: It's just not very We're not we are not.
Speaker 3: I was so harsh for the Model podcast.
Speaker 2: Let's be honest, and our audio audio sounds fine, I guess.
Speaker 1: But we have a nice board, which I'm not going
Speaker 1: to recommend to him because it's too expensive to start.
Speaker 1: But we have We use what's called the road cast
Speaker 1: roadcaster Pro. Are you is it on the back of it?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Okay, because it doesn't say it looking any broadcaster pro
Speaker 3: does this say it on there? And I thought it
Speaker 3: was about five hundred dollars.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's probably about five hundred bucks.
Speaker 3: Okay, Hey, Richard might have some time.
Speaker 1: It depends if he has. He didn't say he hid money,
Speaker 1: he said he has time. And there's a couple of
Speaker 1: things in this life you.
Speaker 2: Get like if you have time. Though, if you have time,
Speaker 2: you can make money.
Speaker 3: You could make money.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 1: So what I would recommend, and I would not recommend
Speaker 1: starting out with anything expensive. Start out with a USB
Speaker 1: microphone from Blue Microphones b l U E. Look up
Speaker 1: their mics. They've got great selections of things that started
Speaker 1: like fifty bucks all the way up to like a
Speaker 1: couple hundred. Get one of their mics, plug it into
Speaker 1: your computer. If you have an Apple computer with the
Speaker 1: latest software, get an app that lets your record. You
Speaker 1: can do it with something as simple as quick Time,
Speaker 1: or you can look at a company audio Hijack. Audio
Speaker 1: Hijack lets you record things. But this company, Rogue AMIEBA
Speaker 1: r O g U E A m O E b
Speaker 1: A Rogue Amiba has great little apps that can help
Speaker 1: you produce a podcast. They've got a whole bunch of them.
Speaker 1: But you can do it in garage band again for free.
Speaker 1: So my advice start out as cheap and as free
Speaker 1: as you can because the toughest part about doing a
Speaker 1: podcast is actually.
Speaker 2: Doing it on a regular basis.
Speaker 1: And it took me about three years of doing this
Speaker 1: podcast to actually do it on a regular basis. And
Speaker 1: now we have it in the calendar and we do
Speaker 1: it and we know we're gonna do it, and that's it.
Speaker 3: It's like meditation.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you have to do it every day five am.
Speaker 3: Like me, is that where you do at five am?
Speaker 3: Then I will do it at five am.
Speaker 2: Two.
Speaker 1: If you ever come to my desk and see me,
Speaker 1: like my biggest fear is like someone taps on me
Speaker 1: and they're like and they turn around.
Speaker 2: I'm like, oh, but you do it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I do a little headspace. I don't do it
Speaker 1: every day. I do it and I remember, but I
Speaker 1: will be honest. Doing a little meditation at the beginning
Speaker 1: of your day is a very nice thing because it's to.
Speaker 2: The time when you start your day. What do you
Speaker 2: want to do? You want to get in, go, go,
Speaker 2: go go.
Speaker 3: Goody wants to meditate. I just like, have to get
Speaker 3: some stuff done, you know?
Speaker 2: So do I No? I know, but you find so
Speaker 2: I do it.
Speaker 3: And now I have so many questions.
Speaker 2: Well, usually what I do? I come in a little Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's a new thing.
Speaker 3: Okay, because because I can tell I yes, I yep, yep.
Speaker 2: I really have.
Speaker 1: I'm not kidding, like I truly feel like I've been
Speaker 1: more zen.
Speaker 3: This is really sorry for all the listeners listening to.
Speaker 2: This, but there aren't any, so that's okay.
Speaker 3: Sorry. Mom. So last week I was listening to a
Speaker 3: podcast about meditating and someone was commenting, oh, by the way,
Speaker 3: like once you started meditating, like everyone could tell and anyway,
Speaker 3: So then I meditated that day and I was like, wow,
Speaker 3: I need to do this more. And then the next
Speaker 3: day I was like, I should tell Rich we should
Speaker 3: have like designated ten minute like you're meditating, I'm meditating.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're doing that.
Speaker 3: So now it okay.
Speaker 1: And we also actually have a room in the tech
Speaker 1: studio that's fully dark, so I think we get some
Speaker 1: candles in there, like a little mac and it's just
Speaker 1: like you put the little thing on the door that says,
Speaker 1: you know, do not disturb, But that would actually be
Speaker 1: kind of funny because that room is never used.
Speaker 3: We have two little rooms.
Speaker 1: Well one is like a closet. The other one's like
Speaker 1: more of like a little tiny be perfect meditation. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I think it's important. I think the naps at
Speaker 1: work are important. I think that this is what I
Speaker 1: think we're realizing as humans as we get into like
Speaker 1: this new century is like I am.
Speaker 2: All about hard work. I love to work hard.
Speaker 1: You know that I love to Yes, I do play
Speaker 1: hard too, But the reality is you also have to
Speaker 1: take time to further yourself and to really make sure
Speaker 1: that you're doing okay. For me, a lot of it
Speaker 1: is running. Like I run a lot, so that's like
Speaker 1: my time and like whatever, and I like to read
Speaker 1: a lot. Some other people it's like Netflix or whatever.
Speaker 1: But I don't feel like that really actually calms your brain.
Speaker 1: Like I know a lot of people think like, oh,
Speaker 1: if I watch TV for an hour, but I don't
Speaker 1: think it does. I think it actually it shuffles things
Speaker 1: around a lot more because you're seeing things on the
Speaker 1: screen and you're kind of like thinking about them and
Speaker 1: they it triggers other feelings and you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: Like if you're.
Speaker 3: Totally any show you're watch, I feel like whenever I
Speaker 3: watch TV, I'm always on my phone too.
Speaker 2: That's another show.
Speaker 3: So I'm like basically doing like too much at once.
Speaker 1: But that's a real problem in general, and I don't
Speaker 1: know what the solution is because I find myself like
Speaker 1: yesterday I was homesick with my kid and I'm not kidding,
Speaker 1: I must have looked at my phone for seven hours
Speaker 1: and it's it's a problem, like.
Speaker 2: The screen time stuff. I'm like, that's a problem.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it is.
Speaker 1: Anyway, start the podcast and you know it'll be great.
Speaker 3: Just just send us a link so we can listen
Speaker 3: to it.
Speaker 1: Okay, let me get to this because I did mention
Speaker 1: it in the intro. But Mac malware out pacing Windows
Speaker 1: malware for the our Windows PC threats for the first
Speaker 1: time since twenty nineteen. A new report from malware Bite
Speaker 1: says four hundred percent increase in detected Mac malware on
Speaker 1: a year by year basis. And you might be thinking, wait, what,
Speaker 1: Mac doesn't have any issues, there's no malware for Mac.
Speaker 2: But here is what they say.
Speaker 1: It's not necessarily viruses like you would think and the
Speaker 1: trojan horses of the like the Windows.
Speaker 2: Side of things. What it really is.
Speaker 1: And there's one program in particular that I've seen in
Speaker 1: action on my mother in law's computer.
Speaker 2: It's a lot of it is.
Speaker 1: This is basic malware like adware that takes over I
Speaker 1: call it browser hijacking. And when you go to search
Speaker 1: for something, all of a sudden, it's searching on some
Speaker 1: random search website. And what they're doing is you might
Speaker 1: get the same links like some Google stuff, but all
Speaker 1: the ads are taken over by this other company that
Speaker 1: makes money when you misclick something or just keeps putting
Speaker 1: pop ups. The other program is called mac Keeper, which
Speaker 1: is a quote unquote cleaning program. And I noticed this
Speaker 1: was installed on her computer, and at first I thought
Speaker 1: it was a handy little program. I was like, Oh,
Speaker 1: that's good, she has a little Mac clean up clean. No,
Speaker 1: it's total bogus. So to uninstall these things on Mac
Speaker 1: is actually quite easy, but you have to know what
Speaker 1: you're doing. Yeah, most people that are getting these things
Speaker 1: don't know what they're doing, so they can't just find
Speaker 1: and drag the program to the trash. And a lot
Speaker 1: of times they do put tentacles in the operating system
Speaker 1: that makes them a little bit tougher to get rid
Speaker 1: of than a typical program that's so creepy.
Speaker 2: It's just really annoying.
Speaker 1: And Mac is still a safe environment when it comes
Speaker 1: to like viruses.
Speaker 2: A lot of the times.
Speaker 1: But again, what they're doing is they're targeting this malware
Speaker 1: because they can make money off of it, and they've
Speaker 1: got it installed on a bunch of computers. So the
Speaker 1: two things you need to look out for is something
Speaker 1: called new tab and that again is what you know
Speaker 1: tab and that's kind of adware. And then there's one
Speaker 1: called pc vark pc vark and mac keeper and those
Speaker 1: are the things that are really the bad stuff. All right,
Speaker 1: I think we have time for one more question on
Speaker 1: your OPA.
Speaker 2: One more quick, one quick one.
Speaker 3: Okay, let's see. Okay, So this last question comes from Subhan. Currently,
Speaker 3: I'm using Google Chrome, Google Chrome Cast first generation and
Speaker 3: I'm upgrading to Roku Ultra streaming player. Is the Roku
Speaker 3: ultrastreaming player worth it?
Speaker 2: Yes? I think so. Roku Ultra is their nicest Roku player.
Speaker 1: It's got a lot of great features, it's fast, it's smooth.
Speaker 1: I've been testing it out. I think we've talked about
Speaker 1: this in previous shows. So I've been using it, you know,
Speaker 1: every once in a while to kind of see like
Speaker 1: what it does, how it reacts to things like when
Speaker 1: Disney Plus came out, I kind of looked on there
Speaker 1: to see how Disney Plus worked. I would say my
Speaker 1: impression of the Roku interface, it's not my favorite. I
Speaker 1: think for simplicity, Apple TV is my favorite, and I
Speaker 1: think for like just a cheap streamer, Fire TV is
Speaker 1: really nice, but it's crowded with a lot of stuff
Speaker 1: on the screen. Roku, I think has a nice balance
Speaker 1: of like simplicity, but also there are ads on the screen,
Speaker 1: which I don't necessarily like. But also I love their
Speaker 1: universal search, and I love all the features you get.
Speaker 1: It's the Ultra has all the features you can want
Speaker 1: in a streaming player for a hundred.
Speaker 2: Bucks, which is kind of nice.
Speaker 1: So I say it's a great upgrade from the and
Speaker 1: I think you're gonna love the fact that you have
Speaker 1: a remote control that's dedicated. You have a volume button
Speaker 1: on the side of your remote, which is really nice.
Speaker 1: You have a power on and off which controls your
Speaker 1: TV so you only need one remote for everything, which
Speaker 1: is great nice. Plus you can plug your headphones into
Speaker 1: the remote on the Ultra, which is also really nice,
Speaker 1: so you don't have to disturb people if you want
Speaker 1: to watch stuff quietly.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 2: It's just a nice little player.
Speaker 3: Cool.
Speaker 1: So I think he made a great decision. All right,
Speaker 1: two more things I want to tell you about before
Speaker 1: we go twenty twenty elections. Siri can now answer questions
Speaker 1: about results, primaries and more so you can ask real
Speaker 1: time results like Hey, Siri, who's winning the New Hampshire primaries?
Speaker 2: Who's winning? Who won the Democratic Iowa caucus?
Speaker 3: Can I try it?
Speaker 2: And yeah? Sure? Go ahead?
Speaker 1: Results come from Associated Press, So ask it. Who won
Speaker 1: the what was the last New Hampshire? Ask who won
Speaker 1: the New Hampshire?
Speaker 3: Hey, Siri, who won the New Hampshire primary primary?
Speaker 2: According to the Associated Press, Bernie Sanders won the New
Speaker 2: Hampshire Democratic prime.
Speaker 3: I'm with twenty six point two percent of the vote.
Speaker 2: Donald Trump won the Republican primary with ninety point four
Speaker 2: percent of the vote.
Speaker 1: There you go, that's really so, that's kind of cool. Okay,
Speaker 1: so we got a Siri now Google assistant. I know
Speaker 1: Valentine's Day is coming up. You may listen to this
Speaker 1: before or after, but you've got a whole weekend. This
Speaker 1: is kind of cool. I did not get a chance
Speaker 1: to test this out yesterday, so I will do this
Speaker 1: when I get home. But you can now say, hey, Google,
Speaker 1: turn up the love which hold on I gotta make
Speaker 1: sure it doesn't do it on my phone. And it
Speaker 1: will do all kinds of stuff. So it will play
Speaker 1: smooth jazz music. Wow, it will change your color, changing
Speaker 1: lights to romantic red and purple.
Speaker 2: Kind of fun.
Speaker 3: That is fun, kind of cool. Can am using that?
Speaker 2: I will.
Speaker 3: It's Valentine's Eve.
Speaker 1: Awkward, But anyway, this is so I'll tell you a
Speaker 1: funny story. I'll get away from the awkward. Megan question,
Speaker 1: No awkward.
Speaker 3: I was just asking they.
Speaker 1: Had a similar thing for Halloween. And I told this
Speaker 1: story on the podcast. I thing a long time ago,
Speaker 1: but it used to be like, h Google get spooky
Speaker 1: or something like that. And I was doing this in
Speaker 1: my office testing and all of a sudden, every smart
Speaker 1: device in the house started doing creepy crazy Halloween things,
Speaker 1: so playing music. I'm talking, the TV would start playing
Speaker 1: like creepy stuff, like all the lights were flickering, and
Speaker 1: my wife from the other room and yells, and she's like,
Speaker 1: what is going on because she had I had no
Speaker 1: idea what was happening in other rooms. Other things she
Speaker 1: can do asking the assistant for Valentine's Day, Hey, Google,
Speaker 1: play romantic music show romantic dinner recipes serenade me play
Speaker 1: a podcast about relationships.
Speaker 2: Oh, Megan, you've said that before.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm definitely gonna be using the Google serenade.
Speaker 1: Me tell me a fact about love, to learn about
Speaker 1: love and the Animal Kingdom, and Happy Valentine's Day, to
Speaker 1: learn how to say I Love you in eight different languages,
Speaker 1: and do you love me? Will help create a heartfelt
Speaker 1: poem with the assistant. Oh real quick, Google Assistant. Another
Speaker 1: thing I'm loving right now. And I just started using
Speaker 1: this because of that commercial during the Super Bowl where
Speaker 1: it was did you see the Loretta commercial where it
Speaker 1: was like the really sad old man who his wife
Speaker 1: died and he kept saying, remember that Loretta loved you
Speaker 1: know chocolate. Okay, turns out that actually does come in handy.
Speaker 1: I used it twice because my kid got sick and
Speaker 1: I had to remember when I gave him talentol and
Speaker 1: I said, Google, remember that I gave my kid talana
Speaker 1: at twelve fifteen pm. And then my wife comes home
Speaker 1: she's like, what times you give him talent? I'm like,
Speaker 1: I can't remember, h Google, what did I tell you
Speaker 1: to remember? And sure enough on the screen is said,
Speaker 1: you gave your son talent aw twelve fifteen PM. Really
Speaker 1: kind of cool, so you can It's kind of like
Speaker 1: a reminder, but like it's for longer term remembering.
Speaker 2: Reminder like kind of triggers at a certain time.
Speaker 1: Remember is just like, hey, remember remember that I want
Speaker 1: to read that book, you know or whatever. So it's
Speaker 1: kind of a cool little feature to use.
Speaker 3: Imber remember I should ignore that person?
Speaker 2: Does Siri?
Speaker 1: Do you remember, say, remember that I ate lunch four
Speaker 1: hours ago?
Speaker 3: Hey, Siri, remember that I ate lunch four hours ago.
Speaker 3: I don't see an app Yeah, okay.
Speaker 1: So she doesn't do it. Kind of cool. It's just
Speaker 1: kind of a neat little thing. And I think the
Speaker 1: more you use it, the more you can kind of
Speaker 1: come up with different I don't know, just different little
Speaker 1: things that you would use it for.
Speaker 3: Right on forgets a lot of things. So maybe she
Speaker 3: should start.
Speaker 1: So the syntax is h Google remember that. And I
Speaker 1: looked at it when I first started using this, I
Speaker 1: remembered that. The first time I used it, or I
Speaker 1: guess the first time I used it was when I said,
Speaker 1: remember me for Coco, like play the song, and so
Speaker 1: I said me Coco or something like the movie.
Speaker 2: When that was so it clearly missed. Got my anyway,
Speaker 2: that's cool. That's going to do it for this episode
Speaker 2: of the show.
Speaker 1: For links to what we talked about, take a look
Speaker 1: at the show notes, and if you have a question
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Speaker 1: never remind I had my notes in there from last week.
Speaker 1: I don't have a reminder.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, well, remember to use the Google thing.
Speaker 2: How can folks find you, Meghan?
Speaker 3: I'm on Twitter at producer Megan.
Speaker 1: That's going to do it for this episode of the show.
Speaker 1: I'm Rich damiro On behalf of everyone that gets us
Speaker 1: to your ears. Thanks for listening. We'll talk to you
Speaker 1: real soon.